Ritual Bath Instructions

from Quareia Apprentice by Josephine McCarthy, with minor adjustments to wording and layout, for clarity, by Sang

Have a bath full of water and a large bowl of salt. (Sang’s note: Use normal table salt, sodium chloride. I use about a 1/2 cup). Light a candle in the bathroom. Use the first two fingers of the right hand to point at what you are working on.

Sang’s note: It’s fine to do this ritual while reading off the instructions. You don’t have to memorize it, or believe in it, or do or be anything special. Just be focused on what you are doing while you do it.

Where you see “ + ” it means make the sign of an equal-armed cross over whatever you are working on.

McCarthy’s note: This is nothing to do with Christianity; it is about the sign of earth, of Malkuth: the action of the equal-armed cross is used whenever you are tuning or consecrating something that is substance: a body, a stone, salt, water; anything of physical substance. It is the reiteration of the four directions

Consecrating your salt and water

Recite over a bowl of salt while pointing first two fingers at the salt:

“I exorcise thee, creature of the earth, by the living gods + , the holy gods + , the omnipotent gods + , that thou mayst be purified of all evil influence in the name of Adonai, lord of all angels and men.”

Hold the flat of the hand over the salt:

“Creature of the earth, adore thy creator. In the name of God the father + , and God the mother + , I bless thee and consecrate thee to the service of Divinity.”

Recite over the bath while pointing first two fingers at the water:

“I exorcise thee, creature of the water, by the living gods + , the holy gods + , the omnipotent gods + , that thou mayst be purified of all evil influence in the name of Elohim Savaoth, lord of all angels and men.”

Holding the flat of your hand over the water:

“Creature of the water, adore thy creator. In the name of God the father + , and God the mother + , I bless thee and consecrate thee to the service of Divinity.”

Recitation of pouring—recite the following as you pour the salt into the bath:

“Lord God, father of the heavens above; great Goddess, mother of the earth, grant that this salt will make for health of the body, and this water for health of the soul.”

Finish pouring the salt into the water. Then recite:

“Grant that they may be banished from whence they are used, all powers of adversity; every artifice of evil shall be banished into the outer darkness, in thy holy names, Amen.”

Exorcism of mixture

Now that the salt and water are consecrated and primed, you need to instruct the mixture in what needs cleaning off whoever is going into the bath.

With the two first fingers of the right hand trace a triangle in the air over the bath while reciting:

“In the Names which are above every other Name, and in the power of the Almighty. . . ”’’ (point to the top of the triangle)

“…and of the Mother…” (to the bottom right hand corner of the triangle)

“…and of the holy spirits…” (bottom left hand of the triangle)

Complete the triangle and then point in the middle of the triangle:

“I exorcise all influences and seeds of evil from the person who will bathe in this bath: I exorcise all demons, parasites, thought-forms, golems, all ghosts, I exorcise all spiritual dirt and evil influence, I exorcise all magical attacks: all spells, curses and bindings sent by other magicians. I cast upon them all the spell chains and I cast them into the outer darkness where they shall trouble not these Servants of God. Amen, Amen, Selah.”

Now get into the bath

And make sure that you go under the water at some point, so that every inch of your body has been submerged.

Sang’s note: You can bathe as normal at this point, with soap, shampoo, etc. I cannot bring myself to skip this and waste the water, and it always still works for me. I also don’t have a tub big enough to completely submerge in, so I end up rolling side to side to dunk my whole body in sections. If you don’t have a tub, you may be able to get away with blessing a bucket of water and dumping it over yourself in the shower.

When you get out, blow out the candle, and put on clean clothing.

Sang’s Note: I find that I feel the energetic effect of this ritual take action for 10-20 minutes after I get out of the tub

McCarthy’s teaching note: When you exorcise by the ‘gods,’ you are calling upon the deities, the ‘substations’ of Divinity to act, and are calling upon the substance you are exorcising to ‘stand to attention.’ Then a specific name of Divinity is used that bridges between the substations and Divinity. That name focuses a particular quality of Divinity that is relevant to the substance in question. And then finally the element or object is consecrated into the service of Divinity unnamed (not deity) so that it will work regardless of area, religions, styles, etc.

Sang’s note: This is a cleansing tool and it doesn’t do anything preventative or put up any protection. It is considered more gentle and versatile than magical banishment and can be used more often. The Quareia course generally discourages banishing rituals while learning magic (banishing is considered as rude to local spirits, you might lose potential allies).

The Quareia course has you start by using this ritual once a week for six weeks straight. The idea is to learn how it feels to be energetically clean. After that, only use it as needed when something feels off or before an important ritual. McCarthy cautions against overusing it. She says it lowers your resistance if you don’t let yourself ever get dirty, like you lose some natural immunity.